Elbert Rackow stands in the former Jackson School, where the Stevens Point Area Retired Teachers Association holds its book sales. Rackow retired in October after 22 years as president of SPARTA.

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Nathan Vine
| Stevens Point Journal Media

Elbert Rackow said a copy paper box is the perfect way for the Stevens Point Area Retired Teachers Association to move around and store books collected for the organization's book sales.

"We adopt as many of them as we can," joked Rackow, 85. "Using them just makes working with the books a lot easier, so we always have a need for them."

Rackow spent the past 22 years helping adopt those boxes and the books that went in them as president of SPARTA, moving them and the book sales to a new home at the former Jackson School. He stepped down in October, completing yet another leg of his long journey of public ...